I personally find the headline to be very catchy. Although I heard it for the first time with a teeny weeny dose of champagne in the blood and brushed off the initial introspection “hmmm” as the side effect of the fermented yeast in the drink, on re-thinking couple of times I felt there needed to be more meat into that sentence to get me thinking so much. So off I set in recollecting the person who actually came up with this catchy line and it turns out that it was from one of the lovely friends of the SIME house, Stephen Parish, (pretty interesting ideas in his blog), a propeller head in the SUN Microsystem family. And he gladly accepted my invite to take a little bit of time to talk more about what he actually meant.

Below is the youtube embed of the interview with him. (2.50 minutes)

For Start Up’s, this is a must-see

Really, SUN is quite much focusing on providing more robust infrastructure through cheaper data storage, faster accessibility times combining the power of SSD’s and SATA disk capabilities together with standard X86 servers. Some interesting tidbits from their site in the following 2 links:

1. Cloud Computing Solutions, Products, Demos, Videos and Tutorials

2. Start up Essentials: If you are a start up, its probably worth spending some time going through this page

Actually, its quite funny that Stephen may soon be part of the Oracle family that will be lead by a man named Larry Ellison who thinks its all “mainstream buzzwords” (AKA Bullshit) and today’s cloud computing has always existed as a lesser known sister from the early days of the internet. A highly recommended video of his famous ” What the hell is cloud computing” is here.

And with the merger together with Oracle, it is quite interesting times on how these giants plan to focus on their business verticals. SUN being one of the partners for SIME 2009, catch them this year as they travel with the SIME crew and will have some good presence in the Stockholm edition!